Re: ComOS 3.7 memory consumption

Andrew Silliker (silliker@cynical.net)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:44:21 -0400

Is the box that is running out of memory a DR or BDR?

I've seen the same behaviour going from 3.5c6 to 3.7.

The BDR now only has 4k free on it, and will have to be
upgraded to 16MB. All of the other PM3's still have 400K
free on them.

Andrew

At 09:22 PM 8/14/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Yesterday we upgraded our PM3 boxes from 3.51b20 to 3.7.
>Two of our boxes started behaving peculiar after just some
>minutes of operation. It turned out they ran out of memory.
>With 3.51b20 there is usually 160-200K free memory out of 4M.
>(We run OSPF but not BGP on these boxes - without OSPF they
>have sone 20K left.)
>
>The release said that 3.7 was no different than 3.51b20, so this was
>somewhat of a surprise. We had to downgrade again and order some memory,
>then we will try switching back to 3.7.
>
>3.7 runs well on our PM2 boxes in 4M.
>
>--
> Jon Petter Bjerke, EUnet Norge AS, +4722092945, http://www.eunet.no
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